Since 1954
Former employees say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality weakened the unit in the years following the onset of the fracking boom. The operation never returned to what it was before.
The small range in West Texas provides gorgeous vistas and huge research opportunities that are finally being realized.
A federal program helps people in poverty cover the costs of heat and cooling. But advocates say it disadvantages states like Texas, even though extreme heat is a key cause of weather-related deaths.
The all-GOP 15th Court of Appeals soon will hear disputes involving the state’s environmental regulators. “It’s BYOC—bring your own court—for polluters and powerful interests.”
How a Laredo activist and her scrappy environmental group have fought back against powerful interests in South Texas
A note from the new interim editor-in-chief
Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.
PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.
Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.
A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.